Continuity of Operations and Disaster Recovery

The Importance of an Incident Response Plan

Cybersecurity is vitally important in today’s world of highly interconnected networks, systems, and devices. ...
March 24, 2023

988 Crisis Response System Failure Puts Integration with 911 Into Sharp Focus

A few weeks ago, Darrin Reilly, MCP’s president and CEO, authored a blog that explained why the new
December 5, 2022

’Once-in-a-Career’ Chance for Federal Funding Exists for Public Safety

The cost of standing up an emergency services Internet Protocol network (ESInet)—which provides the transport ...
April 21, 2021

Exploring the Basics of Crisis Communications for Public Safety

A constant in the public safety community is that agencies, no matter where they are located, inevitably will ...
March 24, 2021

Planning for the Unthinkable Is Good Thinking

More and more public-safety agencies are beginning to understand the importance of continuity-of-operations ...
March 16, 2021

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: SolarWinds Orion Backdoor

As part of our effort to inform our clients about potential and serious cybersecurity issues, MCP provides ...
December 15, 2020

Crisis Communications Planning for Mission Critical Agencies: The Basics

Public safety and other critical-infrastructure agencies responsible for providing mission-critical and ...
November 4, 2020

Is a Storm Brewing in Your Cloud?

The COVID-19 global pandemic has thrust cloud computing into the spotlight, with everything from primary ...
September 29, 2020

Developing Your Mission-Critical Agency’s Continuity-of-Operations Plan

Continuity-of-operations plans (COOP) represent a significant investment of time and resources. However, ...
August 5, 2020

What the Public Safety Community Can Learn From the COVID-19 Pandemic

In a recent post, I touched upon some of the novel ways that the public safety community has responded to the ...
June 17, 2020

COVID-19 Has Brought Out Public Safety's Resolve, Ingenuity

Sometimes you don’t have a choice—an event occurs that is so cataclysmic that you are forced to do things you ...
June 4, 2020
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What’s Next? Conducting an Incident Response Review

As states begin to reopen and communities slowly return to normalcy, organizations, including ...
May 29, 2020